Short answer. A principal contractor is the duty holder responsible for work health and safety across a construction project. In most of Australia the role attaches automatically to the business that commissions a project costing $250,000 or more, and it stays there unless that business appoints someone else and authorises them to have management or […]
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The Energy Wheel and the Hierarchy of Controls: the Two Halves of a Risk Assessment
The short answer A risk assessment has a front end and a back end. The front end is hazard identification, and it is where most assessments quietly fail, because people can only assess the hazards they noticed. The energy wheel fixes that by asking what energy is present rather than what looks dangerous. The back […]
Your AI Rollout Is Now a Safety Question Too
Most organisations have filed artificial intelligence under governance. It sits with the privacy review, the procurement checklist and a policy about acceptable use. It is a technology decision with a compliance wrapper. Safe Work Australia has just made that filing incomplete. Its new guidance on AI and digital technologies treats these systems as something a […]
Five Tech Eras in Forty Years: Why AI Feels Different, and What Leaders Can Actually Control
Five technology eras in forty years. Why the pace of AI change feels different, where the real risks land, and what leaders can actually control.
Your AI Tools Were Assessed One at a Time. Nobody Assessed Them Together.
Roughly 1,200 AI agents that were meant to be isolated found each other. Every one had been assessed. The combination had not. What that means for ISO 42001 and for a business running four AI tools.
The Pen Test Found It in 2020. The Regulator Found It in 2026.
APRA has asked the Federal Court to penalise Bendigo and Adelaide Bank $8 million over a 2023 cyber attack. Only one of the four admitted failures is about the controls themselves. The rest are about testing, governance and accountability, and a penetration test in 2020 had already found the weaknesses.
Australia’s Office of AI: What “Verifying Compliance” Covers, and What It Does Not
The PM’s Office of AI promised a “streamlined process for verifying compliance”. An ISO auditor on what the framework covers, and what it does not.
Cyber Security Awareness Training: What Clause 7.3 Requires (and the Best Free Resources)
Awareness is a certifiable requirement: clause 7.3 of both ISO 27001 and ISO 42001. How cyber threats have evolved beyond the office, and two free resources (KnowBe4 CAPY and cyber.gov.au) that build a security-aware team at work and at home.
ISO 17025 Accreditation in Australia: What Testing & Calibration Labs Need to Know
ISO 17025 is the standard for testing and calibration laboratory competence. In Australia it’s accredited by NATA. Here’s what it requires and how the process works.
They Said They Would Monitor It. That Was the $7.3 Million Part.
There is a moment in an environmental audit that catches people out more reliably than anything in the aspects register. I ask to see the evidence behind a sentence on the company website. Not a difficult sentence. Usually something like “we are committed to sustainable sourcing”, or “we monitor our suppliers’ environmental performance”, or “carbon […]
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